The Sun. — London, England, 1836-08-31 00:00:00

_ . posed that the creatures who have the impudence to make the proposition will be allowed to do so with im punity l We are rather infidels on the subject of the progress that the " march of intellect " is said to have made—and with regard to the much-vaunted" diffusion of knowledge," we strongly suspect, to borrow an il lustration from Dr. Johnson, that it is diffused as bread is distributed in a besieged town—" to most men a mouthful—to no man a belly-full. " Still, we have no doubt that in this model of a government which the Ra dicals have revived, even the little boys on the lowest forms of the new national normal schools will recognize the Athenian oligarchy of the Four Hundred, which we thought had been " damned to everlasting fame." What the " Young England " of the Destructive sec tion may think of the proceedings of the old fools of their party in digging it up again, and offending our nostrils with it, after the example of Cobbett with Tom Paine's bones, we neither know nor care ; being perfectly- well assured that " Young England" in the mass is as rightly constituted as " Old England" is or ever was, and that in the good sense and rational loyalty of the vast majority of the empire, there is strength enough to crush the whole crew of Whigs, Whig-Radicals, and Destructives, the moment it be comes worth while. The wretched Ministerial place men and their hangers-on, that herd, from motives of mere personal profit, with those who they know medi tate the overthrow of the Crown, and Constitution, and religion of the realm, will sooner or later receive the reward their baseness so richly merits. With the exception of those they pay or give places to, or promise to pay or to give plac es t o , they are sup ported by no party in the State, but a portion of the popu lace, that requires only to be made to understand the real nature of the question at issue, in order to aban don the false teachers and the treacherous guides that would - mislead them into paths of error and of vice. Let that portion of the community consider well what would be the consequence of their necks being sub• jected to the yoke of three cr four hundred irrespon sible tyrant commoners, elected for seven years, and with the means of continuing their reign for ever, by merely voting it perpetual, having unlimited power over the public purse - , the command of the army, and the whole of the patronage of the State. Surely it would be better for Britons to be bastinadoed by Turks or knouted by Russians, than to suffer this unendurable and ignominious slavery at the hands of their own usurping fellow-subjects. Yet this, and this only, is the meaning of " Peerage Worm." Oh ! let our fellow-countrymen ponder well upon these facts, and set themselves steadily in timely opposition to this rising rebellion against the liberties of the nation, before it reach a head that can be broken only by the application of brute force. To those bad and foolish men who, having, however unworthily, acquired rank or repute in the State, arc c ounten,incing, for the gratification of their own base ambition, this absurd and wicked at tempt to revive for Great Britain the most odious form of irresponsible government that ever cursed a civilized community—and to that small portion of the populace which, through ignorance, supports them in their in sane and iniquitous design—we earnestly recommend the following passage from one of our most able and most popular writers, begging such as are too wise to ure for the examples of Greece and Rome, to hear in mind at least the histories of our own Cromwell and of the French Napoleon :—'' Al;.hough most revolutions in Greece and Rome be'-an with the tvrann- of the people, yet they generally concluded in that of a singe person ; so that an usurping populace is its own dupe—a mere under-worker, and a purchaser in trust for some single tyrant, whose state and power they ad vance to their own ruin, with as blind an instinct as those worms that die with weaving ma t znifieent habits for beings of a superior nature to their own."—Times. The defeat of the Carlist General Ituralde seeing to be generally confirmed, with the loss of five hundred men taken prisoners by Yrribarroa ; but the report of the Navarrese Chieftain going ever to the enemy is, as we suspected, a fabrication. We could not imagine. a man, and of large property, like Ituraide, not a sol dier by profession, but who left his vineyard to defend the fheros of his province, could be guilty of so base an act of treachery, not only to the cause of his family, but to the King, to whom he was one of the first to swear obedience. His conduct, however, in neglecting the ordinary precautions of war, and allowing his fol lowers, with their arms piled, to be surprised, by an enemy they despised, is inexcusable ; and it is not astonishing that he should be visited with suspicion in consequence. The loss, however, is certain, and the more frankly it be admitted the better for the Carlist cause. One day's defeat in a three years' campaign is not to be wondered at, and it may prove, in another sense, serviceable at this moment, by showing to the other Generals of Don Carlos that they cannot, in any situation, relax their usual discipline, and that they must resist that indolence which often attends suc cess, and which is the main defect of the Spanish character. It will convince Don Carlos and his chief tains that the victory is not won, and this is the hour for increased activity and unceasing precaution. A few more surprises such as that which Ituralde has sustained, and the morale of the army will be affected. Instead of falling into such a disgraceful lethargy, this is the time to strike dismay into the dispirited troops of the Queen, and to prove to the nation at large that the army of the King is equal and willing to protect it from the sanguinary Constitutionalists. The ene mies of Don Carlos are making much of this defeat, and of the few cases of treachery which, from time to time, have occurred among his partisans ; but to every reasonable person the wonder will be that only one ab solute victory has been gained by the Christinos since October, 1833, and that so much good faith and loyalty has been maintained, amid privations of every kind, which must have overwhelmed any cause, that was not cherished in the heart's core of the people. Our readers cannot fail to have remarked, that—since the Proclamation of the Constitution— the disturbances in the capital, and the other large towns—little has been heard of the Carlist operations ; and some persons may be inclined to argue unfavourably of their power if the reason of that inactivity was not explained. But Don Carlos has been advised to allow the two parties which deso late the rest of Spain to exhaust their strength on each other, whilst he goes on cultivating his resources, and preparing for the grand forward movement, whenever circumstances fully authorise him to make it. He has been further recommended to permit the revolution fully to develope itself, in order that foreign nations may be c onvinced of the true na t ure o f the constitutional movement in Spain ; and that the better part of the population, who have hitherto supported the Queen or remained neuter in the contest, may more sensibly feel the misery they are preparing for themselves and their children if they do not come forth in support of their legitimate Monarch. Whether a bolder plan of opera tions or this waiting system be that best adapted to the position of Don Carlos, is a question much de bated in his Councils ; but we think that the success which has hitherto attended his policy and arms may inspire confidence as to his future movements among his friends who are removed from the scene of action, and unacquainted with the details of Spanish cam paigns.--Morning Post. The extraordinary parade which has recently been made in consecrating and opening the Roman Catholic " Cathedral" of Tuam has found fitting record in the Irish Papal Journals, and in the Ministerial Papers which reflect the growing image of Pop i s h ascendanc y on this s id e th e channel. Pompous and dazzling indeed is the description of the prelatical and sacerdotal splendours displayed on the occasion. Th e " glory" of the Episcopal and priestly vestment is stated to have eclipsed anythin g of the sort that has been yct see n in Ireland, and even to have rivalled the magnificence of Pontifical Rome. We hear of the resplendant copes and sparkling mitres, and the mingled effect of awe and admiration inspired on beholding the renovation of the " only true worship" in all the splendour of the " olden time." Now we are far from blaming the Roman Catholics for their admiration of reli gious - ceremonials of this sort, though they present rather too much of theatrical display to suit our taste— nor do we find fault with their zeal when it does not exhibit itself in persecution. We only wish Pro testants to imitate their example, so far as to give more than a lukewarm and superficial support to their own purer and less ostentatious worsiny,_ and to surpass hem in zeal as much as they exceed them in Christian THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1836. I felt in his own conse'ence. admitted that he was neither more nor less than a girl. The girl appeared in her proper habiliments, and accom panied by her father, a respectable tradesman, at the Man sion-house, and was remonstrated with by Mr. Hobler in a truly paternal manner upon the unseemly transformation which she had undergone. She replied that she had, in consequence of frequent dis agreements between her and her mother, resolved to leave the house, and that as she thought it would be easier to obtain a situation as a boy than as a girl, not being able to produce a character, she thought the best way was to be come a boy, which she accordingly did, by turning her cloak into a pair of trowsers, and purchasing a jacket and hat for a few shillings. In this new character she obtained a situation, and nobody supposed that she was a girl. Her father immediately took her to the home to 'which it was evident she was anxious to return. charity. But there is another point of view in which it is useful to look at this subject. The Irish Agita tors in this country have been of late very desirous of persuading the English Dissenters that they are stre nuous advocates for the voluntary system, and that they wish to see religion stripped of all its wordly blandishments, and reduced to the primitive state of apostolic simplicity. Does Dr. M'Hale, he who de lights in beim: , saluted as " your Grace," and who as sumes a mitre fit to sparkle on the brows of the Pope himself—does Dr. M'Hale, we say, agree with Mr. O'Connell in his pretended affection for the voluntary system, and that religious simplicity which befits a worship unendowed with. worldly wealth ? We refer for the answer to the pompous descriptions given by the Roman Catholic and Ministerial Journals of the opening of the " Cathedral" of Tuam, in defiance of Sir Robert Peel's " Protestant securities." The Dis senters used to object to the reformed faith of the Church of England, that it had not sufficiently cast off the pomps and vanities of Popery ; yet, with unre formed Popery, are many of them now in combina tion, to overthrow the Church of England ?—Morn ing Herald. No proposition ever made more rapid progress in public opinion—none ever promised a more speedy consummation—than that of Peerage Reform. Evident as is the absurdity of an institution based on the prin ciple that the son must inherit the wisdom and virtue, as he does the estate and title, of his parent—con vincing as have been the arguments by which this ab surdity has been exposed—if it were not for the conduct of the House of Lords itself, it would have been impossible, by theoretical discussion, ever to have excited such a strong and general feeling of hostility as at present exists against the hereditary Chamber. The people of England' are most cautious in changing ancient institutions, and had the Lords been contented with a moderate, or discreet exercise of the privileges with which the Constitution most foolishly invested them, they might yet, for some time, continue to hold, from public forbearance, or from respect of- prejudice, those privileges which are as inapplicable to the wants and spirit of the times, as they arc opposed to any ra tional system of legislation ; but the repeated and aggra vated outrages committed against the representatives of the people—the extirpation of the vital principle from the leading measures of Reform approved by the House of Commons—the insolence and insult heaped upon the Ministers who proposed those measures—and die denunciations hurled by the imprudent advocates of the Lords against the people themselves, hasten on the catastrophe, and leave no alternative to the country but submission to the wild despotism of irresponsible legislation, or a reform of the House of Lords. The question is one of the gravest importance, and, not withstanding the provocations with which the people have been taunted, should be approached with a calm ness and deliberation commensurate with the efFect it must exercise on the destinies of the country. We wish not to stir up the public mind into violent excitement, but to demonstrate the necessity of considering seriously what course of policy is best adapted to secure to the people the full and free exercise of the representative principle. Were we to follow the example of a Tory Contemporary, who exclaims, " Put clown the dema gogues," as a means of tranquillising Ireland, we might in turn cry out, " Down with the House of Lords ;" but as our desire is that the question should be coolly canvassed on its merits, and that the Lords should have a fair and impartial trial, we appeal to the rea son, not the passion, of the people ; and we ask, is it not impossible that the public voice should ever have due influence in the Senate while a few individuals whose interests are in many instances diametrically opposed to the interests of the people, have the power of a veto on the national will ? The creation of Peens is a bungling and despotic expedient; it leaves at the discretion of others the passing of laws, for which the unequivocal expression of public opinion, by popular representation, should he sufficient sanction. Things have now arrived at that point when a radical change in the Constitution of the House of Peers is as essential to the prolongation of, its own existence,. as it is to the welfare and tranquillity of the empire. It is necessary to prepare for the change—a reform of the House of Lords is inevitable—and they are no friends to the Peerage who endeavour to conceal from them the danger of their present position. Can the people of England be expected to sacrifice all the good to be derived from a reform of the House of Com mons, to preserve an institution absurd in it origin, iniquitous in its action, and ruinous in its effect ? The only claim which the Lords have had for years upon the toleration of the country is the prejudice in favour of antiquity. This can no longer sustain them ; the most ardent, admirer of ancient institutions must now see the impossibility of an hereditary and elective prin ciple harmonising in the same Constitution ; and few are so base, notwithstanding the shibboleth attempted to be raised of " Down with the demagogues," as to advise the surrender of all legislative authority into the hands of the Peers. Peerage Reform cannot be much longer deferred—and it would be far more ad sable in the supporters of the Lords to endeavour to conciliate the people into a dispassionate consideration of the subject,• than by defiance and crimination to rouse them into the exercise of faculties and powers, which, if once put into motion, will leave the House of Lords amongst the things which have been.— Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A boy, not 10 years of age, and very small for his age, was brought before Alderman THOMAS `Noon charged with having picked a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. The boy who had been observed by a tradesman in com pany with a boy of larger size, whipped the handkerchief out of the pocket with the hand of a master, and threw it to his companion, who ran off with it. The prisoner ap peared to be quite unconcerned upon being collared, and said that he did not know what picking of pockets was. The Turnkey of the Compter—Please your Worship he's well known. He had a month in Bridewell the last time. A Constable—Please your Worship there's no such a thing as turning these here little uns good once ; they gets to drawing. I seed this boy a little while ago, with four or five other bigger nor him in Hoborn-bridge, and when a gentleman passed they says to him " Go it, Jack," and he drawed out the ankicher as clever as though he was ten times as big.—(A laugh.) Well, I runned arter him, but he runned under the osse's belly, cause he knowed I couldn't folly arter him. These young uns knows every thing ; I never seed such a young un at this here. Alderman T. WOOD—Where does your father live, boy ? Prisoner—Father lives nowhere, 'cause his dead. Alderman T. WOOD—Where does your mother live ? Prisoner—ln Whitechapel ; but I don't know the name of the court. Alderman T. WooD—Has this poor child nobody to protect him ? The policeman said that it was evident he had no friend in the world, and that the bigger boys with whom he associated constantly made a dupe of him. The ALDERMAN told the gentleman who appeared to complain that, from motives of humanity, he would be ob liged to send the unfortunato boy for trial, in the hope that some asylum would be afforded to him. For melancholy cases of this kind it was certainly the duty of the Govern ment to make some provision. Prisoner—l a'nt got nobody to go to. The complainant did not know how to appear against a mere infant, and begged to be permitted to depart without being bound over to prosecute. The ALDERMAN—You surely would not wish to find vheimntnhaiehviimngis by committing and the o nly way we now have of pre committing him for trial. The ti prisoner was then committed for trial. After the magisterial business was concluded, Maclean, the police inspector, brought to Mr. Hobler a little girl, who appeared t o b e b etween 15 and 16 . years of age, whom lie had taken into custody under rather odd circumstances. The girl about a week ago suddenly disappeared from her father's house, and her parents had looked for her in vain, and became apprehensive that some calamity had be fallen her. A nest-door neighbour of her father's, how ever, in passing along the street saw a boy whose face he was sure he knew, but he thought that when he had seen the face it belonged to a girl. It occurred to him; there fore, that the boy might be a girl, and he accordingly told the boy what lie thought. The boy upon hearing this sus picion utterly denied that there was any ground for it, but did not deny it like a boy ; so that the man was confirmed in the belief that the face of the boy was the face of a girl. Maclean, the inspector, who it will be remembered brought the Irish sailor girl before the Lord Mayor some time ago, was then applied to, and he added the judgment which he had acquired from experience to that of the other, so that the boy, over.vhelmed by such testimony, added to what he GUILDHALL. Reuben Marten, the pugilist, was brought up in the cus tody of Roe, the Guildhall officer, charged with cheating a cab-driver. The prisoner was adjudged to pay the fare, with 7s. for backing and executing the warrant, and 12s. to the driver for loss of time, being together 245. 4d. Martenetain ed till despatched t u a rned. messenger was d BOW-STREET. Yesterday a Frenchman, named Casimir Narbonne, alias Victoire Dufour, was charged 'before Sir F. ROE with hdving obtained money by false pretences from, or rather under the order of, Mr. Gregorie, the Magistrate of Queen square. Another Frenchman, named Charles Dupochene, was also put to the bar, charged with attempting to rescue the first-named prisoner, and assaulting an officer of the Men dicity Society, named Pearson, in the .execution of his duty. E. J. Handley, chief officer of Queen-square Police office, stated that about the 27th of May last the prisoner, who now called himself.. Narbonne, was brought. before Mr. Gregorie, on the charge of being found destitute in Agar-street, Strand, and being unable to make his wants known except by signs and writing, professing to be deaf and dumb. He was relieved with a shil ling by .order of Mr. Gregorie, and desired to call again, which he did ; and witness, under direction of the ma gistrate, purchased him articles of apparel to the amount of sixteen shillings. He was requested by signs and writing to give some account of his history ; and he wrote down a statement to the effect that he was a French born subject, and had been many years a resident at the island of St. Lucie. While there, about three years ago, he was sud denly deprived of his speech and hearing by a thunder storm, and having been informed that by going to Paris he would, in all probability, obtain a perfect cure at an insti tution in that city, established for the purpose of relieving persons afflicted with such a dreadful calamity, he left his business, which was a very lucrative one, and embarked for his native country with 5,500 francs in solid cash in his chest. He applied at the institution alluded to, and re ceived the utmost attention ; but his malady could not be cured, and he was, in the meantime, taken advantage of by some swindlers . , who decoyed him to a gaming -house, and in a very short time he lost every franc he had in the world. Ho the❑ contrived, by the charitable assistance of a few persons, to make his way to England, and hence fell into the destitute condition in which he was found. Witness had some suspicion that lie was an impostor, and several times addressed him suddenly, and tried by other means to ascertain whether his suspicion was well-founded, but the prisoner was so capital an actor that he foiled him. He presented to Mr. Gregorie a letter, purporting to be written and signed by Mr. Gor don, the British Consul at Havre, from which port it seems he embarked for England, certifying that he was deaf and dumb, and recommending him as an object of compassion. On a subsequent occasion the prisoner pre sented himself at Queen-square before Mr. Gregorie, and stated in writing that he would be able to relieve himself from his dependent condition altogether if he could only get back to France again, but that he had no means ; upon which the worthy Magistrate directed witness to give him two sovereigns, on the receipt of which his gratitude seemed unbounded. He declared his intention to depart imme diately, and it was thought that he had gone ; but within the last few days Pearson, an officer of the Mendicity So ciety, received information of his being still about, imposing upon the benevolent, and he yesterday apprehended him, and found sonic begging letters upon his person. The money which he received was given from the poor box of Queen's-square, which contains the donations of the chari table for the relief of those who really stand in need. Mr. GREGORIE, the Magistrate, corroborated the state• meats. -• Mr. GRAHAM, the Magistrate, gave similar testimony. Pearson, the officer of the Society apprehended the pri soner Narbonne, and while carrying him away, the other, who gave his name Dupouchene, endeavoured to rescue him, and obstructed him (Pearson) in the execution of his duty. Narbonne found no difficulty either in hearing or speaking when witness seized him. Narbonne was remanded for a week, and Dupouchene was committed for a month to the House of Correction, for obstructing the constable. The latter was very angry at the decision. Q UEEN- SQ UA RE. A char-woman, named Elizabeth Yates, was charged be fore Messrs. WHITE and GREGORIE with having stolen a cash-box and its contents, the property of Mr. Price, a gentleman residing in Stafford-place, Pimlico. She was fully committed to Newgate for trial. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Catherine - Wilson,ap;per: was charged by Mr. West, the master of Clerkenwell workhouse, with being drunk and refractory. Committed to the House of Correction and hard labour for seven days. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Yesterday Jonathan Holcombe, John Beck, and John Gray, were brought up for final examination, charged with stealing property to a considerable amount belonging to Mr. Strechest, tailor, Argyll-street, and Henry Josephs, who was charged with feloniously received a part of the same, attended on his bail. _ _ The particulars of the robbery have already been before the public, as this was the fifth examination of the two first named prisoners, and the third and second of the other two. The robbery took place as far back as the 10th of August, and after the apprehension of the two first-named prisoners, the former of whom was in the employ of the prosecutor, and Beck, who had run away from his master after robbing him, they informed police constable Gibleness, of the C division of police, that the prisoner Gray, who drove a cabriolet, was employed to come and carry away the goods in his vehicle, and also that they had sold a portion of them to Josephs. In consequence of this statement they were remanded ; and in the interval the prisoner Gray was dis covered, and taken into custody. Josephs was also appre hended and held to bail. The evidence taken during one of the early examinations was then read over• to Halcombe and Beck, tf hen Mr. CHAMBERS fully committed them for trial. Mr. CHAMBERS then informed Josephs that be was dis charged, that the course which had been adopted was occa sioned by the statements of the prisoners. Gray was also discharged, Mr. CHAMBEES informing him he was discharged entirely for want of evidence ; for in his own mind he had no doubt of his guilt. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday, shortly after Mr. COMBES had taken his seat on the bench, a middle-aged female presented herself before him, and requested his interference and assistance. The applicant, on the preceding evening, between eight and nine o'clock, went to the shop of Mr. Cording, a pawnbroker in Ratcliff-highway, to redeem an article of which her husband had purchased the ticket, and had not been there many minutes when she heard the cries of an infant in the passage close to where she stood. The youngman behind the counter instantly got a light, and a female infant of about a month old, and rather neatly dressed, was found lying in the corner of the passage. She (applicant) instantly took the child up, and search was made in all directions for its mother, but she was not found. Applicant was in conse quent,. about to take home the child, when a female who was present observed that it was impossible an infant of such tender age could do without the breast, and that as she could supply its wants in that way she would take care of it. Under these circumstances, she allowed her to take the child with her, though she afterwards sadly repented it, and she had scarcely slept a wink on the preceding night in consequence of the regret she felt in not keeping the infant herself'. She had, however, m a d e up h er m i n d if p oss ibl e to get possession of it and bring it up as her own, and had obtained the free will and consent of her husband to do so. On that morning she called on the female who had taken the child, who she found in very humble circumstances, and by no means enabled to support the infant with her own family. Besides, she had ascertained that she had not suckled a child for nearly three years past ; and, under these circumstances, she hoped his Worship would order the child to be given up to her. Mr. CONIBES—May I ask your motive for being so very solicitous in getting possession of this infant? Applicant—None whatever, Sir, excepting that I have got no family of my own, and if the mother could not be found I would wish to adopt and bring it up. My husband is in the receipt of 701. a y ear, besides a handsome salary when he is in regular employment. We have a nice house in Jeffery square, and would be well able to take care of it. Mr. COMEES-If you keep yourself in your present ma ternal feeling for a day or two, there can be no doubt in the world that you will get the child, as it is not likely that the parish officers will gratify the wishes of this other woman ; and both her and the parish officers will be glad to give the infant up to you. The applicant, who appeared much disappointed at her request not being complied with, then withdrew. WORSHIP STREET. Yesterday, C. Brooks and Thomas Atkins , members of a Gold-beaters' Society, who were summoned before Messrs. Broughton and Grove, being charged by Mr. W. Bailey, No. 15, Gee-street, St. Luke's, with endeavouring by threats and intimidation to induce him to make an altera tion in the mode of carrying on business, and to limit the number of his apprentices and workmen, appeared for the purpose of making their defence. The complainants case was heard on Saturday last. In reply to the allegations, Mr. HUMPHRIES said that the accused were charged under the 6th of Geo. IV., sec. 3, cap. 129, with using threats and intimidation ; but when it was proved in evi _dence that neither of the defendants had called upon the complainant previous to the 27th June, the da* of the strike, he (Mr. Humphries) :considered the charge fell to the ground. After commenting upon the evidence of the complainant, Mr. Humphries concluded by saying that he had no doubt of a decision in favor of the defendants. Mr. BROUGHTON, having consulted with his colleague, observed that it was the opinion or the Bench that threats and intimidation had been repeatedly used by Brooks, and it was most monstrous to suppose that any undue interfe rence or dictation should be employed by journeymen, and who should be impressed with the illegality of such pro ceedings ; since, if such conduct were allowed, the object of capital would be destroyed, and capitalists would em ploy their money in foreign countries. The question with them was, had the Committee taken steps to intimidate and compel the complainant to make such alterations as to injure him. He and his brother magistrate believed that it had done so, and, in that opinion, they convicted the defendants ; but, in consideration of their respectability, they would not enforce the penalty of hard labour. Brooks was sentenced to two months and Atkins to one month's imprisonment in the House of Correction. Mr. Humphries said that they would appeal, when the defendants were held to bail, themselves in 101. each, and two sureties in 10/. each. Four master goldbeaters became their bail. UNION-HALL. John Nicholson, a master tailor, living in Bland-street Dover-road, was charged with assaulting and threatenin the life of Harriet, his wife, a young woman possessing con siderable charms. The husband, on the contrary, was a poor thin emaciated-looking man, apparently labouring un der a very ill state of health. The wife had been married two years, and could safely say, without the fear of contradiction, that in that time she had not had a single day's comfort or happiness. She was aware that the contrast between her husband and her self was very great in many respects, she having the ad vantage of him in point of looks ; and on this account, if a strange man only looked at her it excited his jealousy to such a pitch that she was always sure to be the suErer. On a recent occasion, the " jealous fit" having come upon him, although without the least grounds, ho began to trounce her with a pair of pantaloons, striking her over the head and face with the sharp buttons, and never left off until the lower part of the garment had separated from the waist. This was merely a specimen of his conduct towards her, and what was rather an astonishing fact, he generally vented his rage upon her with those articles of dress that he had in hand, and, whether it was an expen , sive one or not, he cared little for the consequences, being only intent upon thrashing her. She added that she had been compelled to quit her home upon more than one oe -casion, and that she had determined not to go back again let the consequences be what they might. He, however, came after her, and threatened her continually. Defendant here exclaimed, " Try me once more, dear Harriet. Don't be so cruel-hearted as to send me to gaol." Wife—l won't try you again. Your promises are not to be relied upon. Why are you jealous of me ? Defendant—Because I love you. Magistrate—You have a very singular way of showing your love, by thrashing your wife with the work which you, as a tailor, ought to be more careful of, for the sake of your customers. The pantaloons spoken of were, indeed, a spe cimen of your violence towards the poor woman. Wife—He is as cruel a tailor as any in London, al though he is so mealy-mouthed now, and can scarcely say " Boh "to a goose. I'll let you go to gaol, you worthless man ! but (added she) what am I talking about ? you are no man ; not even the ninth part of a man. Husband—Harriet, love, do forgive me for this once ; this exposure will be quite enough to restrain me in future from ever touching you again in a passion. I'll have done with all jealousy as long as I live. The Magistrate asked the wife if, after this promise, she was inclined not to press the charge ? The wife, however, was inexorable to all appeals upon her feelings, and the husband was compelled to enter into sureties to keep the peace. CORONER'S INQUEST. DEATH FROM POlSON.—Yesterday an inquest was held at St. George's Hospital, on the body of Harriet Smith. Mrs. Mary Hodges, a respectable lady, residing in Star street, Edgware-road, on Thursday last, received a note from the deceased, requesting to see her, as she was very unhappy. The witness went to her, but she looked very wild, as if she had been drinking. She wished particularly to see my son James, who was partial to her. I returned home, and sent my son to her, who almost instantly ran back and said, " Oh, mother, make haste to Harriet Smith, as I fear she has taken poison." I went at once, and saw her at the corner of the New-road, where she had been sick. I accompanied her home to Grove-street, St. John's Wood, and sent for medical aid. Three surgeons immediately at tended. The stomach pump and other means were used to extract the poison from the stomach, and she was conveyed to the Hospital in a hackney-coach. She had received an excellent education ; but the loss of her mother, a few months back, had preyed upon her spirits, and that acting upon some unfounded jealousy, led to her taking a quantity of arsenic, of the effects of which she died on Thursday night, having previously suffered the most dreadful agony. There was also a mark upon the neck, as if she had attempted to cut her throat. _ Mrs. Hodges, in answer to questions from the Coroner and the Jury, stated that the deceased had taken the poi son in a neighbouring public-house before she sent for wit ness. " She was very sorrowful," said the witness, "at the death of her mother, and, knowing that she was partial to my son, I sent him to soothe her ; but while his back was turned for an instant she swallowed the poison, and, show ing him the cup which contained it, said Now I have done it, throwing the cup upon the floor at the same time.'" Witness could not say if her son lived for any time with the deceased, but they certainly were not married. The Jury determined to have Mr. Hodges examined, and adjourned till eight o'clock, and then re-assembled, when Charlotte Hope, at whose house the deceased lodged for three weeks, said she and her husband, Mr. Hodges, were very quiet till the night before she took the poison, when they quarrelled, and witness gave them notice to quit. There was nothing whatever improper in her manner. Mrs. Hodges was with her after she took the poison until she was conveyed to this hospital. The only part of the quarrel which witness heard, was her saying. " She would sooner suffer death than put up with it." There was a deal of struggling between them. Witness always considered Hodges to be a sober man. James Hodges, of 17, Star-street, Edgware-road, on Thursday last, in consequence of a communication from the deceased by his mother, went to her - and saw her near Cambridge-terrace. They went to the Masons' Arms public-house, had some gin, which he paid for, and a biscuit. After taking a glass of the gin, she went to the other side of the room towards the window ; she pulled out a cup, and drank something off; she then threw the cup down, and said, " Now I hope I shall be happy, for I have taken poi son." Witness ran instantly to his mother, and told her the circumstance, when she immediately attended the deceased. She was always of a very jealous temper, but particularly so when in liquor. The disturbance was occa sioned by his telling her that he had been at a particular house, which very much enraged her. She was. quite tipsy when she took the poison. Verdict—" Died from taking poison while in a state of in sanity." The investigation was not over till 10 o'clock. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 29.—The sales to-day consist of 2,000 bags, of which 400 were Egyptian, 14d. a 16:f€1. ; 60 Pernams, 121-d. a 131-d. ; and the remainder American, 811 a 114-d. The week has commenced quietly. Prices have been steadily supported up to this time. Fair to good qualities will continue to support present rates, even in the event of the demand being less brisk than it has been during the last fortnight. - - At Pershore (Worcestershire), on Monday, three thunderstorms occurred during the day, accompaniad with tor rents of rain. During one of the storms, we are sorry to say, human life was lost. About four o'clock in the afternoon, Richard Clark, his little son, and five others, took shelter under a pear-tree at Wick, ucar Pershore, when the electric fluid struck the tree, and, descending among the group, Clark was killed on the spot ; his child, with whom he was playing at the time, escaped with only a few burns ; the other persons of the group were knocked down, but not hurt. Between eleven and twelve o'clock the same day, as a man was going with a waggon and three horses, belonging to Mr. Baugh, to Wyre Pyddle, the lightning struck them, killing the middle horse, and striking the man, who has remained delirious ever since. Several farmers have had cattle killed and trees struck by the electric fluid.— Worcester Journal. A STAG HUNT IN FRANCE. (Nimrod —New ~porling ,Maaazine.) Saturday, 23rd, being a dies non in the Chantilly Racing Calendar, other pastimes were provided, and at an early hour of the morning, pigeon-shooting commenced between the members of the Paris Tivoli Clu. At twelve o'clock, however, a sport more to my taste was announced, namely, the meeting of the Prince de Wagram's stag-hounds in the forest, where a fine stag was said to, be harboured. This was quite an unexpected pleasure to me, and enhanced for the following reasons. First :—I had never seen stag hnnting, or any hunting indeed, in France ; and, secondly, I had the honour of being mounted on the occasion by his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans, and a great honour did I consider it to be. . The place of the meeting, or the " fixture'," as we call it in England, was once celebrated in the annals of French hunting, bein g La Table, about two miles from Chantilly, and so called from the fact of there being, at a division of four roads in the forest, a large stone table, of about three yards diameter, on rrhich, in the late Duke de Bourbon's time, a splendid breakfast was often set out, for himself and the field. Here were assembled, not only a great many carriages, but at least three hundred horsemen in deed, some said, nearer four than three. Be this as it may, there were sufficient to make a very grand display, and a large proportion of the field were mounted on horses fit to be seen any where. I also observed a fair sprinkling of very well turned-out sportsmen, in red coats and leather breeches and boots, that would have passed muster at Mel ton. The two Princes were not in red, but the boots, breeches, saddles, and bridles, were all right of their kind ; and I have reason to believe, from what I heard from those who have seen them at work, that their Royal High nesses require nothing but practice to make them front-rank men in any country. Of the first grand essential—nerve— they are said to have enough. About an hour before the hounds left the kennel, I had an opportunity, of having a peep at them, but only for a few minutes, as I had another engagement to attend to. They appeared to me to have nothing of the stag-hound in them, but to be a large sort of fox-hound, half English and half Norman, with, I'believe, unrounded ears, which, in addition to their being rather high on the le g , gave them somewhat the appearance of stag-hounds, although greatly disfiguring to them as fox-hounds. They looked about as well in their skins as the majority of hounds do at that period of the year ; and I saw nothing amiss with their condition, which was light, and therefore suitable to con tend with a wild stag in cover, on a warm day, in the last week in April. I could not count them correctly on the benches, but running my eye qver them, supposed them to be from 17 to 18 couples. The Prince de Wagram, who resides at Gros Bois, about 20 miles from Paris, in the department of Seine and Marne, was with his brother on a visit at the Chateau, for the races. The following is the style in which they were turned out :—There were two tolerably well-mounted men, in green coats, heavily laced with silver, laced cocked hats, and jack boots, and each carrying a huge French horn over the shoulder. One of these men, however, whom I had seen in the kennel in dishabille, appiiiiled to take the lead, I during the shore time I was in company with him, as hunts man. In addition to these were two more servants, either styled whippers-in, or prickers, but which I cannot say, and they were turned out thus :—They wore the plain black velvet hunting cap, straight cut green frock coats, with scar let collars, jack boots, the couteau de chasse at their girdle, and large French horns. Secured also to the couteau de chasse, was a hunting whip, with the thong lapped round the crop—such being, except on occasions, considered the properest place for this, with us considered indispensable, in strument in the hand of a huntsman, or whipper-in, by reason of its being inconvenient to carry it, when the horn is to be played upon, in chase. The horses these men rode—especially one in a crupper—appeared not the sort to go " the pace," but they looked fat and sleek, and the condition of their riders was in keeping with them. The Duke and his brother were in dress and accoutrements, fac-similies of these two men ; and as the party of six, with the hounds, rode away from the crowd, to begin their day's work, their appearance was not only highly respectable, but sportsman-like. The day likewise was tavourab,le to effect, inasmuch as the rays of a meridian sun added greatly to the glitter of the heavily laced coats and hats which the two huntsmen wore, as well as being reflected brightly in the well-polished French horns which they carried. A stag having been harboured, we were not long before he was roused ; and, nearly at the same moment, another stag, which must have couched near to him in his lair, was on foot From him the hounds were quickly stopped by the prickers, and laid on to the harboured deer, who went away as if he intended to run. The sight was a most in teresting one to those who witnessed it, as I myself did ; although deprived of much of its grandeur, by the ab sence of the branching antlers which ornament the " stately monarch of the forest"—this being the period at which he generally casts his head. However, according to the fable, stag's horns, though beautiful, being an impedi ment to tight, may be dispensed with by the sportsman, and a fine chase of three hours and twelve minutes, with death at the end of it, was the final result of the day's sport, a short description of which I will endeavour to give. We went off at a very good pace, so good, indeed, as at the end of somewhere about an hour to have shaken off the crowd. " The field is becoming select, as Mr. Aiken would say," exclaimed the Duke of Orleans to me, with a smile, as we came to a momentary check ; " I _am glad to see you well up." " It is, Sir," I replied, " and it will be more so presently if we continue this pace, for the day is very hot." (The cuckoo was singing merrily, and close to us at the moment.) Away we went again, however, with apparently a breast-high scent for about half an hour, when rather a singular occurrence took place. Many of those who were with the hounds at the check I have- just alluded to—and amongst them the Duke and his Royal brother, the former on a fresh horse—were well up with them also at a certain point of the chase, when they all at once dis appeared, and, strange to say, had it not been for one for tunate circumstance, no one but myself and two more horsemen would have seen the hounds again that day. The state of the case was this :—Up to this time we had not quitted the forest in which our game was found, but per. ceiving we were approaching the extremity of it , and the hounds on good terms with their stag, I quitted the road, or the " ride," as we call it in our country, and brushing through the cover, got close to them. The ground was rough and uneven, and the pace good, but finding the mare I rode knew how to take care of herself, I clapped to her in right earnest, and, in about ten minutes, found himself in the open country with the hounds, who were streaming away with a good scent. It being seldom any man's lot, and still less mine of late years to be a-head of such a numerous field as this, I turned myself round on my saddle, after a short time, to see who was coming, and what part of the field had got away. To my surprise not a soul was to be seen excepting Edgar Pavis, the Duke's jockey, on a thorough-bred one, Mr. Corringham, his Royal Highness's trainer, and one French gentleman, on a clev erish gray horse. Having, I knew, travelled pretty straight up to this point, I began to speculate as to whether the chase would lead us, for a champaign country was before us, and the hound's heads were put straight for it. I was also aware that our game was not far a-head by the fact of their carrying the scent, best pace, over a sand bank, on which it soon gets cold, and I ventured to cheer them with a holloa, but which, of course, they would not understand. Soon after this, however, an awkward accident occurred. Pavis and myself, who were leading, and nearly abreast of each other at the moment, found ourselves all at once amidst rabbit holes, which the Duke had so kindly cautioned me against, although luckily for us our horses avoided getting into them. But turning my head around to see how the others had gotten over them, I saw the French gentleman stretched, apparently lifeless, on the ground. " Hold hard," said Ito Mr. Corringham, who was not aware of the accident, " I fear the gentleman is hurt ;" and when we raised him from the ground he was quite in sensible to his situation. We %hould have bled him had we had a lancet ; but, as it proved, he was only stunned by the fall ; Pavis and I followed the hounds, and got up to them at the first check. Here, as they were feeling for the scent, a second, to me, novel occurrence presented itself. Seeing some woodmen at work on the skirts of a large wood, Pavis asked them if they bad seen the stag, when they replied they had not, but they had seen two Ivolves, which probably the cry of our hounds had disturbed! The hounds recovered the chase, which led straight into this wood, Pavis and myself accompanying them ; and Cor ringham to be seen making his way towards us in the dis tance. And here two things were apparent. First, it was evident, from the manner in which the hounds took up the scent at this point, that their game was not far before them ; secondly, that, having ben turnins , to the right and towards home, for about three miles before b we came to it, he was afraid to face the open country, after the rattling he had bad in the forest, and the pace he had been travelling at afterwards—added to the fact of his having been, at this time, at least ten miles in a direct line from where he was roused. This turn to the right, however, was just what we wished, for who would be so selfish as to desire others to be shut out from the enjoyment of sport which should be common to all, and particularly so, as there had been no superior horsemanship displayed in our case, neither of us having as yet been over a single fence ? Again, we were without any one belonging to the hounds, to assist them when they wanted assistance, and we were not only in a country in which we had never before been, but upon the point of entering what we believed to be a forest, in which we had a very fair chance of being lost. However, enter it we did, and guided by " the cheering cry," we endeavoured to keep within the hearing of it, lead us whithersoever it might. How long we pursued our course by ourselves it is not in my power to determine, but as it was evident we were \ bearing towards, rather than from Chantilly, wo hoped to fall in with some of the field, and at length we eneunn• tered some stragglers, amongst whom was a servant of the Prince of Wagram, one of the two clad in green' He arrived just at the right time, for the stag was beat ing us ; and although one of the huntsmen, with some more of the field (having heard the horn) soon afterwards came up, he would have beat us altogether had it not been for the science displayed by one man in the stag'-hunting art. In fact, he was fairly lost, and I question his having been recovered, had not this person (an old servant of the late Duke de Bourbon, I was told) found him again by the slot, and on very different ground. We then renewed the chase, picking up a few more stragglers on our way ; bu t it was not till after we had forced bins again into the open country, that the Royal Dukes, and. from 40 to 50 more horsemen, joined us, having been hitherto seeking for us le vain. The rest of this numerous field, indeed, never saw us at all, unless it were those, the Prince of Wagram him self amongst the number, whom we found mustered at La Table, on our return home. From this time to the finish it was all slow hunting. The chase was all over ploughed land. with much naked fallow, and under a very warm sun ; and the stag, havi n g had rest, was now a good bit a-head of us ; and we n ot only wanted a greater body of hounds, but those we h ad began to get slack. To-do them justice, they hunted , or rather picked their way, well up to their game, over abo ut five miles of country, - when he waited for us in a sma ll cover, and we re-found him. The finish was most satis factory. We viewed him three times in this cover ; an d when he did break, it was only to conclude the scene. I n endeavouring to leap a wall close to a gentleman'se hou se called St. Martin, he fell backwards, and died. Although I had seen wild stag-hunting in England (i n Devonshire), I had n ev er s een it accompanied by that custom having b e en di sc onti n u e d b e f o re my time- There was something very chee r i n g, I thought, in the notes of the French horn on this day, which, as it WCIT' responded to those of the hounds, when they threw their tongues on the scent, over the open, after having occasion ally lost it ; and no doubt it is cheering to hounds as ye' The snort blown at his head has likewise an a nimating, effect, although not quite without its alloy in seeing one 43 ' the noblest animals in the creation wit his eyes glazed bY death, and that death created by somewhat protracted suf ferings—for doubtless this deer's heart was broken. After the mort was blown, one of the huntsmen having stripped off the skin of the fore-legs, from the knees down" wards, and cut off the slots, they were presented to the master of the pack, as is the general custom in France ; and the carease, after being b roug ht t o th e Ch a t e au, sv,_a s given with some ceremony t o th e h oun d s . Th e l a te Duke de Bourbon, I was told, always gave it to them in the flow The extent, or boundary of the Duke de Bourbon's country. I have reason to believe, was interminable. The town of . Chantilly is in the centre of 60 miles of-forest ; and I hav e , heard that, with certain intermissions, there is a chain 01 forests extending to the Black-forest, in Germany. After experiencing one of the highest sensual gratifica tions of which human nature is capable of receiving-- namely, a glass of something sharp and cold to lips parellei by heat, and a body exhausted by fatigue, but w hat to ea', it I know not, we remounted our horses a nd proceede d towards Chantilly, from which place we were said to be distant just six leagues, or about 15 English miles. A, s nearly as I could judge, there were present at the dent' about a third of the number of horsemen that started in the morning with the hounds, and we fell in with a bout a score more who were waiting for us at La Table, th e owner of the pack and his brother being of the n umber. We had likewise now a full chorus of horns, on which the most was played to great advantage on our approach to th e Chateau ; and th us en d e d, makin g a ll owance f or the tim of the year, and one or two other matters, which I 11 K touch upon hereafter, a very fair day's sport, but wine' might have been rendered better, as I may also hereafter make it appear. CLAUDE LORAINE A PASTRY-COOK !---San draat, who was a contemporary of Claude, wrote his life in Latin, and from this source all subsequent writers have 0 1 3 4 plied themselves. Sandraat says that Claude being found (1111 at learning was taken from school, and p u t un d er a painter of eatables—" a parentibus suis in disciplinam tradebatur, picto cuidam artocreatum." This latter part has always been trans' lated, " put him apprentice to a pastry-cook" Every mode life of Claude has it so, and many of the great masters in tr" art and mystery of pastry have no doubt glorified greatly IP. having had so illustrious a brother. How " cuidam pictor.t artocreatum" came to be translated into a pastry-cook, i t 15 0 useless now to consider. The fact is, both in Germany auo Italy, the painting of signs for shops and other places whe, eatables are sold, was an extensive trade, and is even 1 16 . , practised by many, as the signs on the shutters and doe" throughout Germany and in parts of Italy prove; the repre sentation of rolls, pies, cakes, sausages, &c., being oft " done to the life."— Table Talk. Passengers on landing at Dover from the Continen t have been allowed to bring a bottle of brandy, supposed to be the remains of what may have been in use to comfort them 03 the voyage, and avert sea sickness ; which indulgence has be en so much abused, that all bottles are now seized containing more than half-a-pint, which may, however, be recovered on payment of duty at the Custom-house. ROSSINI IN LONDON.-ROSSIIII'S residence in London was very profitable to himself. He was just the kina universally popular ; he was himself a first-rate Hcoism music of man to be the fashionable lion of his day. singer; and his manners and address were calculated to gain the favt of the gay and the courtly. The aristocracy, from R°Y" downwards, were profuse in their invitations and attentions and he left England loaded with solid proofs of their liberaliti(; His regular fee for attending a private musical party wa s iv , guineas ; but those who invited him seldom contented the , selves with giving him that sum. As if this were not enoue two subscription concerts were set on foot for him, to, to place at Almack's rooms ; the price of admission to both r i e be three guineas, and none to be admitted except such as w e bly usic vins approved by lady patronesses, appointed to guard the asseti from the approach even of that portion of the profanum vuig who were a ble an d w illi ng t o g i ve th ree gu i ne as for a o ti c of concerts This, however, was too much even for th e _ e as travagance of our beau: monde ; and the price of admission 40 reduced to a guinea for each concert. The concerts */,', 00 attended by a crowd of fashionables, who had the gratifica"er of hearing Rossini's most hackneyed songs sung by the ,1 3 „ $ formers whom they heard every day, and accompanie d 'J tj ul pitiful band of twenty paformers. They, however, c ° ets , boast of having heard two or three comic songs and " t he sung by the great maestro himself. 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